Load.view

The load.view and load.view.v commands load a view resource into memory. A view must be loaded before it can be assigned to any objects or used in any command such as add.to.pic (note: a view does not have to be loaded before the show.obj command is used).

load.view(number viewNumber);

load.view.v(variable viewNumber);

The view viewNumber is loaded into memory.

Parameters

For load.view:

• viewNumber: a number, 0-255, specifying the view that should be loaded

For the indirect version, load.view.v:

• viewNumber: a variable, v0-v255, whose value specifies the view that should be loaded

 

Possible errors

• The view must exist in the game's vol files, or the game will crash with a view not found error.
• There must be sufficient memory to load the entire view resource into memory, or the game will crash with an out of memory error.
• If the view resource is already loaded, it is not loaded a second time, nor is the script buffer affected. If the view is discarded and then loaded again, it will of course be loaded a second time; however, this adds to the script buffer.

 

Example

The following code loads VIEW.025 into memory using load.view:

load.view(25);

The following code uses the indirect command load.view.v to do the same thing:

v195 = 25; load.view.v(v195);

 

See also

• discard.view
• set.view

 

Sources

Some of the text in this article is taken from the AGI Studio help file.